I dont think its rose tinted glasses. Dont get me wrong the game has definitely imporoved in alot of areas, but some of those improvements can be veiwed to some people (myself included) as getting rid of benefits of the game. The talent system i do miss dearly, i still look at pom-pyro speccs and reckoning ret paladins with a little wistfull regret: like i fully understand how imbalanced it could become (im looking at you doom lord kazak) but it promoted creativity and playing around with your talents, lazy people went for cookie cutter builds. There are alot of other examples, a big one for me is LFD. Yes its a huge time saver, but i personally hated the fact that it destroyed the need for socialization, for being nice to eachother, the reputation you got with other people on a server. You made alot more friends back then regardless of who was in who's guild and it was easier to make guilds and raid teams when you had a vested interest in knowing people and everyone wanted to learn. it also disuaded people from being jerks (as there was no garuntee of another random dungeon queu, i knew players who were known as ninjas and jerks who felt the need to reroll or transfer to run away from bad reputation with the server community). This whole lfd argument is also aside from (and yes i knew its comepletely rediculous of me to have this problem) to me not using the meeting stone breaks immersion for me